A bipartisan commission last month began the process of redrawing the boundaries of Maine’s two congressional districts after a federal judge ordered the Legislature to complete its work redrawing the line between the districts by Sept. 30 to reflect population changes in the 2010 census.

A three-judge panel ruled in June that Maine’s congressional districts are unconstitutional based on the latest census data and must be redrawn before the 2012 congressional elections.

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Maine legislators will take up the commission’s plan when they convene Sept. 27.